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Friday, August 24, 2012

Friday Photos

Last month I met up with Sara and Geordie at the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens for an afternoon of exploration in what is supposed to be a very beautiful botanical garden - alas not much was in bloom and they were doing some minor construction on new garden areas so it was breathtaking in terms of the gardens. Fortunately for us, the real reason I wanted to go to gardens was Bongoland!

I first read about Bongoland about two years ago when the girls and I were first getting into camping. I had it in my head to explore as much of Florida as possible and, of course, the first book I turned to was Weird Florida.

Life being what it is, my plans to go to Bongoland always got scrapped. But when I finally got to go, it was almost as good as I hoped. The only thing that could have made it better would have been more...dinosaurs?

This was the only one of the five concrete monstrosities that "looked" semi-normal...and by that I mean ... never mind, just keep scrolling down.

Okay. Dinosaur eggs are pretty simple enough to make. These kind of looked cool. I liked how they had one that was broken open almost birdbath-like.

I've always been a fan of stegosaurus. They make me smile as I imagine them clodding around in the forest.

Cool I like tricertops - they always look tough, like they are just sitting on the edge of a major spaz out. Umm...okay so maybe his horns got broken in a fight...

Why is he trying to KISS US????

smootchy-smootchy

Behold the giant land sloth. Watch out folks, his a maniacal stalker! Look at how he is pushing back the brush... just like a velocioraptor!

"I'm watching you...With my shiny Frank Sinatra eyes!"

And finally the majestic king of dinosaurs... The T-Rex?

Yikes! Rexy Baby! What happened to you? Where is your third finger? Have you dislocated a shoulder, you poor thing!

I'm pretty sure there isn't anything left to say but oh how these made me crazy happy!

I actually found it in Barnes and Noble and spent a good hour or so skimming through it jotting down places I wanted to go. There is another book called Florida Oddities that has some good road trip suggestions in it.

Bongoland looks delightful. I love the bashful land sloth. And that T-Rex is just precious. I want to find the sculptor, who is presumably in a mental institution, and just pat his/her head for trying. I mean, not even the eggs are the right shape. Love it.

To be fair, Bongoland was created way back in the 50s before the team at Jurassic Park used their time machines to find out how cool dinosaurs actually looked. And I'm sure that concrete technology has come a long way since then...right?

I thought about trying to convince Scott to renew our wedding vows in front of the T-Rex...but something told me that it would be a losing battle!

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I'm a simple girl with a complicated life. No. Wait. I'm complicated with a simple life? That doesn't sound right either.
I write. I read. I craft. I photograph. I game. I play.
I dream big while I stretch my wings.